ABSTRACT
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, or as I would rather say, Malcolm, and other friends, I need to crave your indulgence for my boldness in agreeing to give this lecture in a series which honours the memory of Dr. Foulkes. My title may seem a pretentious one. “Beyond the Unconscious” may give you a spooky feeling, as perhaps “infrared” or “ultraviolet” may do—rays which are neither red nor violet: we have no bodily senses to perceive them with, but only know them as unseen powers. And “Group Analysis Applied” may also seem grandiose. Dr. Foulkes himself saw group analysis as having possible relevance to many fields of human behaviour, just as does psychoanalysis, which also developed out of observation and treatment of the mentally sick, and has made its contribution to our understanding of many aspects of so-called normal human behaviour, influencing for instance the way we bring up our children. My own experience, however, is limited to the application of group analysis to higher education, though I think that similar methods can be applied to many other fields.
